Master Cook. Behold in me a pupil of the school

Of the sage Epicurus.

Friend. Thou a sage!

M. C. Ay! Epicurus too was sure a cook,

And knew the sovereign good. Nature his study,

While practice perfected his theory.

Divine philosophy alone can teach

The difference which the fish Glociscus shows

In winter and in summer: how to learn

Which fish to choose, when set the Pleiades,